What an extraordinary life of service. RIP Queen Elizabeth.
'Is this how turgid our media has become? Do they really think that Fox News is a model to follow? That instead of reporting on issues our media should engage in cheap shots against the Prime Minister that are reality and substance free?' Are you taking ...
How is NZ first bigoted and racist ? While I know this will go down like a cup of cold sick.... why would you not apply the same lens to Te Pāti Māori ?
Maybe, but I'd take any of the previous governments of the last 20 years over the current lot in a heartbeat. It might of course be something to do with my age, one's tolerance for idiot politicians declines the older you get I suspect.
The most useless parliament in many decades, nothing more concerning for NZ than a rubbish government and opposition at the same time.
Very true, I don't think any Mayor of Auckland is capable of sorting out the shambles at council. Efeso seems like a very nice guy who will likely get in but anyone who expects anything to change in relation to eye watering rates increases, a shambolic ...
Good grief ... John Key still living rent free in your head after all this time. As sad as the people that still bang on about Helen Clark etc.
I'm hoping the media move on from the current charades surrounding Labour and National MPs and actually do some real reporting on issues of actual importance. The economy, health and education .......probably a forlorn hope on my part.
Michael Wood our very own Enoch Powell.
Concern troll is concerned.
We have journalism in NZ ? Best laugh I've had in a long time Rosemary.
Chris Trotter's article is worth a read. 'Judging from his op-ed piece, Sharma may even have been labouring under the misapprehension that he was in Parliament to represent the electors of Hamilton West. He may even have thought that they were the people ...
'Can I guess which party you did vote for?' Sure, if that's how you get your jollies be my guest.
"I guess National voters like yourself live in a different world to people who work where the work is." Not quite sure what that actually means, also FYI ...I haven't voted National in the last three elections.
"But how many can afford a holiday of any kind these days, let alone one in Hawaii?' Well most of our members of parliament certainly can. https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2017/0262/latest/DLM7421103.html?search=ad_act%40regulation__...
'A dismal site projecting the paranoias and raging egos of its primary contributors.' ... sounds like every NZ political blog
Good Lord Lynn - did it take you all day to come up with that just so you could have a dig at me, how sad. I think this article in stuff from earlier in the year covers matters quite succinctly, https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/explained/300535840/theres-a...
I must be missing something as the MSD figures don't support a position that we're approaching full employment. https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/2022/benefit-fact-sheets-snapshot-march-2022....
'How many PMs has the Queen now seen come and go in her 70 year reign?' Fourteen so far in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Elizabeth_II
The government spin-meisters made the claims - they should back them up. I clearly explained why their claims were absurd hyperbole, that you are unable or unwilling to comprehend what I point out is hardly my problem.
Fill you boots bud. https://pharmac.govt.nz/medicine-funding-and-supply/the-funding-process/medicines-and-medical-devices-contract-negotiation/ As I have previously said the claim by the government is hyperbolic nonsense for a total pharmaceutical budget ...
it is a fact that vote health spends in the order of 1 billion a year on pharmaceuticals per the pharmaceutical schedule via retail pharmacy and via in hospital usage - this is publicly available information. The majority of pharmaceuticals that have lost ...
'NZ puts much more money proportionally into basic health care.' Nonsense, spending per capita on health in Australia is above 5k US per annum in NZ it is barely 4k.
"There's been a carve out for New Zealand medicines and Pharmac, as patent requirements sought by the EU would have made medicines here more expensive by hundreds of millions of dollars a year – " This smells like spin and nonsense, PHARMAC are very very ...
Ad has a knack for thought provoking posts which are more than what they seem on first glance. This time he had to add a bit of spice in the comments section to allow things to 'kick off' as it took a while for anyone to take the bait.
"Your comment is just another pathetic attempt at painting the Government in a bad light; it’s essentially meaningless, but good for a negative vibe, which is the gist of almost all your comments here." I'm not sure why you find this surprising, the ...
Regardless of who gets in I'm picking the rates will go up and the shambles that is auckland will continue on its slide to become NZs most unliveable city. All the mayoral candidates offer little hope of anything different to the rubbish we've had to put ...
Still bemusing the commenters with common sense I see Rosemary. Trust you and Peter are both well.
Isn't the chap who runs AirNZ with the PMs mob in the USA ? Why not just fly an AirNZ dreamliner into DC from LA or San Francisco.
Politicians shouting at each other in parliament what a pack of muppets. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.] [lprent: If you can't address ...
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